Associate Professor Tina Noutsos

Dr Tina Noutsos is a Senior Specialist Haematologist with NT Health, Outstanding Future Researcher/Senior Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, and adjunct Associate Professor with Flinders University's College of Medicine and Public Health.

Tina is a clinical and laboratory Consultant Haematologist with dual FRACP and FRCPA fellowships conferred in early 2010. She is active in both clinical and laboratory practice at the Royal Darwin Hospital, Department of Health, NT Government. Tina is an active educator, teaching malignant and non-malignant haematology to medical students, physician trainees and haematology pathology trainees. She is an Expert Group Member of the Serious Transfusion Incident Reporting (STIR) Group of the Blood Matters program, Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria.

She completed her PhD with the Menzies School of Health Research on snakebite associated thrombotic microangiopathy, an important complication of snakebite envenoming which occurs globally and is associated with kidney injury. In her Senior Research Fellow role at Menzies, Tina's other research interests also include blood transfusion, and the epidemiology, clinical features and effectiveness of treatments for antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and immune thrombocytopenic purpura in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, rural and remote communities. She is a partner investigator on the Blood Synergy Group, an NHMRC funded program of research focussed on addressing Australia's national blood transfusion priorities. Tina is a local NT investigator for a number of phase 3 clinical trials, and the Australian thrombotic microangiopathy, neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, and myeloma and related diseases registries.

Tina has a solid foundation in medical education and leadership, and was the Director of the Medical Program - Doctor of Medicine (MD) at Flinders University from 2017-2020, Northern Territory Medical Program Course Director from 2015-2020, and acting Associate Dean for Flinders NT during 2016.